Square Golf Omni Review: Is It Even Better Than We Hoped?

***This article was updated in May 2026 to include testing for a more thorough review***

The first Square Golf launch monitor, released a couple of years ago, was the most disruptive product to hit golf tech in years if not ever. A camera-based launch monitor for under $1,000 with no subscriptions and a free GSPro connection was a first in so many ways and the market responded accordingly.

Now, here we are again. This time Square is swinging for the fences with their first foray into full-blown serious launch monitor territory. For as good as the original Square was and is, it was limited. The new Omni Edition is not.

It has four cameras, works indoors and outdoors, reads ball and club data, gives you face impact location, has a built-in screen so that you can use it without an app, doesn’t require special golf balls to get all the data indoors, and still doesn’t require any kind of subscription.

For $1,600.

 

 

 

I previewed the Square Golf Omni after seeing it at the PGA Show in January. I definitely came away impressed but still cautious. There were a lot of questions left to answer about whether the real-world performance would match the prototype promises.

I’ve now spent a few days with the Omni indoors and outdoors, on mats and natural grass. I’ve hit shots with all kinds of clubs, put it up against more expensive launch monitors, and tried it in various lighting conditions. I’ve poked through and used each of the software features both on the mobile iOS app and the more-complete PC version. I’ve even read the manual.

So I can finally answer the question: Is the Square Omni for real?

Yes. No point making you wait for that. Yes, it’s for real.

Mostly. With caveats. And with some real tradeoffs you need to know about before you spend $1,600.

But yes, Square has done it again. The Omni is a genuine market disruptor, and at this price point, with what it delivers, there’s nothing else quite like it.

Let me show you why.

Why the Square Omni Is So Talked About and Such a Big Deal

As I said, the Square Golf Omni is the second-generation photometric launch monitor from Square Golf, the Korean company that surprised everyone with the original Square in late 2024. Where the original was indoor-only, had two cameras, and was missing some key data metrics like clubhead speed and smash factor, the Omni is a much more ambitious product. It’s bigger, more capable, and engineered to do everything the first Square couldn’t.

In the box you get the unit itself, a folding tripod stand, a replaceable lithium-ion battery, an AC power adapter, a sheet of club stickers, a sheet of shaft stickers, a short alignment stick, and a card with 1,000 free credits for Square’s native simulation software.

There are a few amusing typos here and there in the unboxing experience. Most glaring, the box for the included AC adapter is labeled “Adoptor.” There’s a couple of “BLINLING” in the manual where there should clearly be a “BLINKING.” A few stray missing letters elsewhere. Square is a Korean company doing English-language manuals and packaging in-house, so a little roughness in translation is understandable. But it also is a good clue that you’re not getting quite the polished-and-perfected branding and marketing of some of the bigger-name competitors.

Now, what you don’t get in the Square packaging is any kind of carrying case. I’ll come back to that.

The hardware leap from the Square Home Edition to this new device is massive. The Omni uses four high-speed cameras, arranged vertically along the front of the unit alongside infrared illuminators. Those cameras read ball and club data simultaneously when you’ve got the proper stickers on your clubs, which we’ll cover.

There’s also a built-in LCD screen that displays six core ball metrics after every shot (ball speed, launch angle, launch direction, spin rate, spin axis, and carry distance), meaning you can use this thing without ever connecting to an app or computer if you want.

The battery is replaceable and slides out from the bottom of the unit, which is pretty cool when it comes to more convenient charging and replacement or swap-out options.

Connectivity is wireless via Bluetooth to iOS, Android, and Windows. Out of the box, you get Square’s native simulation software with four modes (Driving Range, Closest to the Pin, Putting Practice, and Game Mode) for course play across 22 included courses.

And the Omni connects seamlessly and at no extra cost to third-party software like GSPro, which I’ll talk about more in the software section.

 

 

There’s so much to cover here. I’m going to dive deeper on each one of these topics and others as we go.

But here’s why this product matters and why it’s the most anticipated launch monitor of 2026: Until the Omni, if you wanted a camera-based launch monitor that worked both indoors and outdoors, that gave you full ball and club data, and that included face impact location tracking — meaning you can see exactly where on the clubface you’re contacting the ball — you were looking at the GCQuad neighborhood. We’re talking $16,000-plus from Foresight.

Even units like the Bushnell Launch Pro, which deliver excellent indoor accuracy at a more accessible $2,500, charge a $500 annual subscription on top of the hardware cost to grab the same kind of data the Omni gives you for free.

And when you look at competitors like the SkyTrak+ or ST MAX, which both feature incredible native software and an easy plug-and-play experience that’s perfect for so many home users, you're shut out of the wildly popular GSPro platform.

On and on the limitations or tradeoffs go.

With the FlightScope Mevo Gen2, you can get impact location data, but you have to pay extra for it. Plus, because the Mevo Gen2 is a radar unit, it’s less ideal for many indoor use situations.

The point is that for as good as the options have been, each one comes with its own set of compromises or higher prices.

That’s exactly why the Omni is generating so much hype. It’s almost like it’s too good to be true.

So, is it?

How I Tested the Square Golf Omni

I put the Square Omni through extended sessions across three separate environments to be sure I was answering the questions buyers actually have.

Indoors, I pitted the Omni against the Uneekor Eye XO because, well, that’s what was set up in the space I used for testing, and I thought it actually worked really well as a comparison point because of its known data quality and for its impact-camera footage that shows you exactly where on the clubface the ball was struck. That gave me a way to visually verify the Omni’s impact location reads against actual photographic evidence.

I also ran the Omni alongside a Foresight GC3 for a separate session. Again, because of the trusted data accuracy and because I consider it the gold standard for outdoor, easy-to-set-up, built-in-screen launch monitors.

 

 

I tested indoors on a hitting mat, outdoors also on a mat, and outdoors on natural grass. I applied the face sticker and shaft sticker and tested with a 56-degree wedge, an 8-iron, a 5-iron, and a driver.

I tested intentional mishits (not difficult for me), including toe shots and (cover your ears) shanks. I even occasionally found the center of the clubface.

I also tested putting from tap-ins to long lags. And I tested chipping and flop shots.

And as I mentioned, I also tested the Square software both on my iPhone and on my SurfThing M3H Golf Simulator Laptop.

The goal was to find how accurate the Omni is, how easy it is to use, how enjoyable it is to use, and if there are any clear issues.

Here’s what I found.

Square Omni Accuracy Indoors and Outdoors

Here’s the section that matters most. Let me get straight to it.

The Square Omni launch monitor is impressively, sometimes shockingly accurate.

Across three different testing environments and with each type of club in the bag, the Omni delivered ball and club data that consistently matched what I’d expect from a launch monitor costing several times more.

Against the Eye XO, the GC3, off mats, off grass, the Omni numbers held up.

I don’t know how to say it more clearly than that. I’ll get to the crap. There’s always some amount of crap. But hear me clearly: This thing is full-blown legit.

As for data, you’re getting:

• Ball Speed
• Launch Angle
• Launch Direction
• Total Spin
• Spin Axis
• Back Spin
• Side Spin
• Carry Distance
• Total Distance
• Descent Angle
• Apex Height
• Hang Time
• Side Carry
• Clubhead Speed
• Smash Factor
• Club Path
• Angle of Attack
• Face Angle
• Face to Path
• Dynamic Loft
• Impact Location

I mean, that is a pro-level data set. There’s nothing missing there any serious sim user or fitter or coach is going to need. You can pick which 17 of those metrics show up on the main screen in the Square software, with six showing on the unit by default.

And the Omni doesn’t require marked golf balls. You can use any ball you want. There are some sticker requirements, which we’ll get to, but the no-special-golf-ball thing is huge for home simulator users.

 

 

Indoors against the Eye XO, the Omni’s numbers were not only in lock-step with the Uneekor’s, it was that way consistently, through the bag, and from shot to shot. Carry distances within two yards of each other (extending out to five-or-so yards discrepancy on occasion with driver), ball speeds within a single mile per hour and on more than a few shots identical, spin rates within 200 RPMs, launch angles within a couple of degrees, consistent spin axis numbers, and in-app ball flights that jibed with the numbers.

By the way, we’re talking about shot after shot here. If you covered up the names and gave me a list and asked me which numbers came from which launch monitor, I genuinely couldn’t have told you.

I should also mention that for driver specifically, I had a friend who swings much faster and hits the ball much further than I do hit a few drives for my indoor testing. I wanted to see how the Omni handled higher swing speeds. And the results held up just like the rest of the data did. The Omni matched everything we were seeing on the Eye XO.

And all of this tracked throughout the bag. Solid strikes, mishits, exaggerated shot shapes, all of it was lining up.

And that includes impact location, which I’ll get into deeper in just a bit because it’s a big deal in a camera-based unit for $1,600. But, I’ll just tease it right now, I did have a few missed reads with impact location.

The data accuracy story was the same comparing the Omni with the GC3.

When I say the same, I mean generally within a couple yards, a couple degrees, a couple miles per hour. When you get that close on measurements between devices, you’re essentially matched. Especially, obviously, if one of the devices costs a lot less than the other. Now we’re talking about a real value proposition.

And it was the same off mats and natural turf. The first outdoor question I had was whether the marketing claim of indoor/outdoor functionality actually held up. The original Square couldn’t handle outdoor light at all. Direct sunlight compromised the reads. So the question for the Omni was would it really work in the kind of variable lighting and conditions you get on a real driving range.

It did.

On natural grass, the Omni’s ball and club data tracked just as cleanly as it had on the mat. Carry distances, ball speeds, and spin numbers matched what I’d expect, and the shot tracer matched the actual ball flight I was seeing.

I did hit one snag initially with my 8-iron where I think I may have had the clubface sticker placed too low. I noticed that I wasn’t getting any impact location readings. But after a reapplication, everything was back to normal.

Now, for all of this good news (and there is a lot of it), there are some things about the Omni that I’m not really digging. Keep reading. I’ll get to them as we go.

The Omni’s Self-Alignment Feature

 

 

It really couldn’t get any easier than setting up the Omni. You snap on the tripod stand, hit the power button, and within about two seconds, it’s booted up and ready. After that, once you have the app or software open, it will automatically find the Omni and connect via Bluetooth.

Once you’re ready to get going with a session, this is where the Omni does something really clever. You don’t have to have this launch monitor perfectly squared up to your target in order to get quality data. You don’t have to sit there and obsess over minuscule adjustments to make sure that you’re getting a 0.0 reading on an alignment screen.

What you do is you set the Omni down with a rough alignment. Then you put the included alignment stick down on the ground directly in front of the Omni’s screen and facing exactly where you want to aim your shots. Then you let the Omni calibrate any offset between where it's facing and where the stick is pointing. Once it stabilizes, that offset is saved, and the Omni knows where you’re aiming until the next time you do that process.

This is so cool. For one thing, it saves you from having to go through a super-laborious setup process, which always kind of sucks to be honest with you.

But it’s also cool because it means that you can adjust your target without having to move the Omni. So if you’re hitting at a target that’s straight ahead, but then you decide that you want to start aiming at a target a bit to the left or right, all you do is put that stick down, go through the quick calibration process, and you’re ready to rock. You don’t have to readjust the launch monitor itself.

Now, this self-aligning adjustment feature is limited to within 5 degrees of where you were originally aiming, so it’s not like you can make huge adjustments. You can’t switch from aiming at one side of the range all the way over to the opposite side of the range without physically moving the Omni. Still, it’s really cool. I mean, this is closer to how a Trackman 4 alignment screen works than to anything else anywhere near this price point.

And it works. I tested it several times. Each time, the shot tracer line reacted after each adjustment. If I hit a straight shot at the new target, it showed as straight. And if I hit one at the previous target, it showed as an offline pull or push.

As for the hitting zone, you’ve got a roughly 10-inch square box starting a couple of inches away from the Omni. That’s a pretty generous zone, and in that box you’re going to get all of the ball data. However, for full club data, including face impact location, you need to have the ball in the front half of that zone. So that effectively cuts the zone down to 5x5 if you want all of the data. All of a sudden, it’s kind of on the small side.

The Square Omni also is supposed to be fairly tolerant of uneven setup because of an internal tilt sensor that automatically compensates if it's not sitting on a perfectly flat surface. And the cameras can read the ball even if the ball is positioned a little higher or lower than the unit itself, though Square does advise that, if possible, you place the Omni on the same level as your hitting area.

One quick aside on the hardware itself. The Omni is a definite step up in build quality from the original Square. This is solid and substantial in hand. And Square has done some smart engineering with the cameras and the screen recessed so that a golf ball can’t make contact with those things. I think this device is going to prove to be very durable.

It is big, I will say. And this is where not having a carrying case is a real bummer.

The Omni design is similar to the Rapsodo MLM2PRO, which also includes a detachable tripod. But the MLM2PRO is much smaller and it comes with a really nice carrying case. So it’s definitely portable.

 

 

The Omni is not the simplest to transport. And if using it outdoors is to be one of its primary use cases, this is definitely lacking an elegant solution.

Two Stickers Required for All the Data

I mentioned before that to get all of this ball and club data, including accurate spin numbers indoors, you do not need any kind of specially marked golf balls. That’s a definite plus.

However, you are going to need some stickers. At least one and even two if you want everything the Omni can deliver.

The shaft stickers are reflective decals that wrap around the shaft just above the hosel or ferrule if you’ve got ‘em. The face stickers are small reflective dots that go near the top center of each clubface. Precise placement is important, and there are instructions included.

 

 

The shaft sticker alone gets you club path, angle of attack, and the unit’s estimated face angle and dynamic loft. Yes, estimated. Face angle and dynamic loft on the Omni are calculated, not directly measured.

The face sticker doesn’t do much on its own. What it adds, when paired with the shaft sticker, is impact location and club speed. So if you want the full club picture (which I think pretty much everyone will for at least some of their use), you need both stickers on every club you’re going to hit.

Nobody really wants to put on club stickers, and two is worse than one. But remember, with another four-camera launch monitor — the Foresight GCQuad — you have to apply four clubface stickers to get all the data.

The Omni’s Built-In Screen and the Start of Some of My Frustration

The Square Omni’s built-in LCD screen is a feature I really wanted to love. The idea of a launch monitor that shows you your six core metrics right on the unit, no app required, is useful, especially outdoors at the range. Some of my favorite launch monitors are my favorite launch monitors for this exact built-in-screen reason.

The Omni’s screen is… OK.

The screen itself is bright enough and the actual numbers are big enough to read them the distance of your normal hitting position. That part is fine.

But the issue is the screen angle. The way it’s positioned, unless you’re really short, you’re kind of looking down at an angle where you can’t really fully see the numbers that are recessed from the Omni’s face. It’s like you’ve got to squat down to get a head-on look in order to see all of the information.

The other thing is that the print on the name of each data metric itself is tiny. I can’t read it from much of a distance. This isn’t such a big deal once you know which metric is which, but it’s a bit of an initial annoyance.

I think the execution of the screen design is a bit of a miss. Not a total miss, but a bit of one. I just think it could be a lot better, which would make using the Omni a little smoother. If the screen and the outdoor use is one of the main selling points, I think this screen design is inviting some criticism.

Impact Location Is a Big Deal, and It Delivers on the Omni

Impact location is a bit of a rare commodity in launch monitor data metrics. And when it’s even an option, it comes with additional cost.

The FlightScope Mevo Gen2 is a good example and a natural comparison to the Omni because at $1,299, it’s even less expensive than the Omni. And the Gen2, like the Omni, gives you face impact location. But you’ve got to pay an extra $350 for it. That takes your Mevo Gen2 cost to $1,649, right in line with the Omni. But if you want all of the data that the Gen2 can provide, you also need the Pro Package upgrade. If you go all-in on the Gen2, it’s a $975 one-time upgrade, bringing your total spend to $2,274. So you see where the Omni starts to look like a screaming deal.

 

 

But is the impact location feature on the Square Golf Omni any good?

It most definitely is. It’s very good. When the Omni gets a clean impact read, the accuracy is outstanding. I tested toe shots, heel shots, fat shots, thin shots, all the shots, intentionally and unintentionally thank you very much. The Omni did an incredible job of putting the impact dot in the right place on the digital clubface in the software.

The Eye XO’s impact-camera footage backed it up repeatedly. And, as anyone knows, you feel the severe misses. You know when it’s off the toe, and you damn sure know when it’s off the heel. The Omni showed it right pretty much every time. It was really impressive.

 

 

However, of all of the data tracking that the Square Omni does, I found impact location to have the most number of misses. Not inaccuracies. Just plain missed shots. Like the location dot wouldn’t be there when I went into the analysis screen. I’m going to say this happened at most 20 percent of the time. It wasn’t never. I had a number of misses. But it definitely was capturing it the vast majority of the time.

The other big bummer is that I couldn’t find it anywhere on the mobile app. It’s limited to the PC software. That’s definitely a drag, especially when you’re just going to be out at the range.

Another limit is high-lofted clubs. Impact location doesn’t reliably work on your big lob or sand wedge moon shots. The Omni will read those shots and give you the ball and club data, but impact location data doesn’t come through.

For everything else, face impact location with the Omni is a mostly very impressive feature. To just get it included at this price along with everything else you’re already getting is just really interesting and definitely something that’s going to put pressure on competitors.

Putting and Short Game

Square came out of the putting space, originally as Exputt, which is a dedicated putting simulator. That putting expertise is baked into both the original Square and the Omni.

And while I will say that my putting with the Omni was limited to one short session, I found it to be both good but also, well, I’m not quite sure yet. At this point, I’m most comfortable just confirming that it definitely reads the putts on the device itself. And I’m talking down to the really light-touch tap-ins. So the capture rate there is fantastic, which is a big deal.

But in my session, I couldn’t get the mobile app to show the putting metrics. The device itself read the putts and the onboard screen showed information. But the mobile app wasn’t capturing the data. Probably an app-side bug that a future update will fix. Then again, as we’ll get into, future updates aren’t guaranteed when it comes to Square. Read on.

The Square Software and Where You’ll Find the Tradeoffs

 

 

Here’s where the Omni’s tradeoffs start to show up.

The Square software is on its 2.0 release, which has brought some legitimately nice improvements. The new Lodge driving range, including a nighttime setting, is a pretty cool addition. The Closest to the Pin game got a refresh. The putting practice mode is expanded.

None of the Square software features are necessarily bad, and some of them are a lot of fun. But the honest truth is that, even after the upgrades, Square’s native software is still the weakest part of the Omni package.

 

 

The graphics quality and course detail on the simulated courses is fine but not exceptional, and the courses themselves are unfamiliar names. So you’re not going to be playing any bucket list courses. Unless, of course, you plug into GSPro for no additional charge, which I’ll get to in a minute.

Compared to something like what you get with a Foresight or Bushnell or Uneekor or SkyTrak, this just isn’t anywhere near that level of detail, realism, refinement, and overall fun.

One thing about Square’s native software that I think deserves credit is their pay-as-you-go pricing model for course play. Rather than locking you into a monthly or annual subscription, Square charges a credit per hole on their simulated courses. The Omnni comes with 1,000 free credits, which is more than 55 solo 18-hole rounds. After that, you can buy more at around two cents a piece. I think it’sa nice alternative to the everything-by-subscription model that’s become so common.

While I do find navigation throughout the Square software to be very fast and intuitive, it’s not always efficient. There are regular annoyances. One is that the impact location feature is buried a couple of clicks behind your main driving range page where you see most of the data. To get to the impact dot, you have to click further into an analysis menu. I wish it were more front and center.

The other big issue to just acknowledge here is that Square doesn’t have a great track record of supporting or continuously updating or fixing its software. You’ll find a lot of customer service complaints and frustration with lack of response when encountering issues.

But what takes some of the sting off of this software tradeoff is that the Omni connects free of charge to GSPro. And that’s become one of the biggest reasons that people bought the original Square and have some interest in the new Omni. It’s an inexpensive way to get to GSPro. You only have to pay the $250-per-year GSPro subscription. You don’t owe anything additionally to Square the way you do with other competing launch monitor brands. You get all of those golf course renderings and the awesome practice features for just $250 a year.

 

 

That use case is one of the biggest reasons that Square has developed such a strong grassroots following. And that’s why I think that even though the Square software experience is a tradeoff, it may be one that a lot of people who buy this product for $1,600 will live with.

Square Ups the Ante (Again) with Omni Edition: Is It Worth It?

Back to the question of is the Square Omni for real. I hope I’ve explained why, yes, I think it’s absolutely the real deal. You really are getting the four-camera accuracy and full spectrum of data metrics that you’d hope for. And you really are getting incredibly accurate impact location information. And you really don’t have to pay anything extra for any of it.

The tradeoffs are real but contained. The native software is the soft spot, and I can’t promise you everything that needs polish will get polished. Also, the built-in screen is just OK. And of course there’s no carrying case as of yet.

But it’s $1,600. Every single one of those tradeoffs is pretty much explained away by that price. And that accuracy.

The Square Omni is the most disruptive launch monitor of 2026. I said that more than a year ago about its predecessor. But this takes things a big step further.

Marc's Overall Rating for the Square Golf Omni